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Blitloop is a retro shmup that I've been working on, on and off, for a while. Well, a little bit too long. It's supposed to partly be a homage to some of my childhood favorite games, on the Amiga, but spiced up with more modern visuals.
I'm using this project to learn the ins and outs of Unity.
Most recently, I've been working on a shield for the player. It's mainly built with ShaderGraph, and I'm using a Custom Function node to pass an array of hit points into the shader.
I’m also quite happy with being able to run the shader and its interactions in Edit Mode; it makes iterations of tweaking the shader much easier.
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One thing I love about Unity is how easy it is to create custom tools. Here’s a node editor I built for this project to design bullet patterns.
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I put up a devlog video yesterday, where I’ve collected an overview of the major things I’ve been doing with the game project lately.
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I've started to tidy up my UI, and I was experimenting a bit with that last night. I came up with a workflow to turn my in-game assets that I model in Blender into symbols, which can easily be extracted as vector illustrations too, if needed.
In-game asset:
Then, using the compositing feature of Blender, I can extract the parts with Cryptomatte nodes and control the inset of each material with Dilate/Erode nodes.
